Brooms Standing Up During Eclipse

Well apparently it s happening all over.

Brooms standing up during eclipse.

That urban legend is false of course i have a suspicion that the person asking this question has heard a similar urban. Broomchallenge brooms nasa harry potter theme song ost. The tweet was accompanied by a video of a woman propping a broom up. March 20th is the first day of spring or vernal equinox as it s known to astronomers vernal meaning of or pertaining to spring equinox meaning equal night as the angle of the earth s inclination toward the sun changes throughout the year lengthening or shortening the days according to the season and hemisphere there are two times annually when day and night are of more or less.

It has nothing to do with earth s gravitational pull on a certain day. So why is this happening. Brooms are standing up on their own today. A viral tweet claims nasa says the earth s gravitational pull causes brooms to stand up straight for one day only but experts say this trick works any day of the year.

There is an urban legend that a broom will stand by itself during an equinox. As the woman watches the broom stand up on its own she yells no strings nothing. The reason your brooms are standing on end is because of the equinox it happens twice a year this is when the earths axis lines up with the suns making a straight line basically causing gravity to be messed up and in a few places and items things can stand on end you can also do it with eggs not just brooms they will stand on the. How does a stick stand during a lunar eclipse.

Standing an egg on its end is something that can be done any day of the year but most people never try it on any day other than the equinox. And no i don t have any ghosts in my house at least not any cleaning ghosts.